As WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty reports, officers were trying to serve a narcotics search warrant on a man in his apartment near 69th Street and Loomis Boulevard, when he ran out of the building and into the backyard.

Then, police say, the man ordered a dog – possibly a Rottweiler or a pit bull – to attack the officers.

The officers shot wounded the dog, police said.

Police News Affairs does not know the current condition of the dog, which was taken away by Animal Care and Control.